Thursday 28 June 2012
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TECHNICAL DETAILS OF SERVER 2012 OR SERVER 8
Windows Server 8:
The Microsoft Server Fork
There's
an argument to say that Windows Server is now Microsoft Server with Optional
Windows. If it's what Microsoft has described, it's a hard left turn for
Microsoft
Windows Server 8 is
categorically different than its predecessor versions. There’s an argument to
say that it’s not actually Windows. It's pre-beta, and it's an enormous
statement covering many positions on the chess board. Windows 8 Server editions
are preferred to be run, according to Microsoft spokesperson last week, in
Server Core format, although Windows GUI will be available if desired. Headless
operation can also be used. It's just not Windows by default anymore, but
instead, a "cloud operating system" specifically poised towards
competing with VMware.
TECHNICAL
DETAILS OF SERVER 2012 OR SERVER 8
I'm pretty sure that
VMware's Paul Maritz would have been hung in effigy at the server workshop I
attended last week (under heavy secrecy) if it could have been done. Each
Windows 8 version can be strongly PowerShell-controlled, and optionally with
traditional GUI. Microsoft’s lead server architect is also the “inventor” of
the PowerShell scripting methodology, whose command list will exceed 2300
native commandlets in Windows 8. In a way, it’s Microsoft Server 8, and
optionally Windows Server 8 and breaks Microsoft's naming convention, as well
as Microsoft's established version release timing. No one would speculate when
it would arrive, only that it was pre-beta and about to go beta-- but not
feature complete.
While seemingly radical
for Microsoft, there is much pressure on operational efficiency, coupled to
increasingly complex control options and infrastructure character of the
operating system. Administrators familiar with Microsoft’s MMC won’t need to
fret, as familiar contexts will remain for them, but the center-thrust of
Windows Server administration was encouraged to be PowerShell-driven, rather
than through the maze of administrative GUIs that have been the mainstay of
Windows Server versions for nearly two decades. There are script-managing
tools, and Microsoft has evolved a "community" sharing of PowerShell
scripts and procedures designed to control Server in a way that's increasingly
competing with Unix/Linux/BSD/Solaris scripting languages and procedures-- but
in a distinctly Microsoft way.
Underneath the control
surface is Hyper-V, and Microsoft listed many features poised towards
increasingly “automagic” functionality, although they tended to use the
patented Steve Jobs phrase, “It just works”. Heavy attention towards ease of OS
instance movement (along with requisite IP address management and resiliency
options) within the constructs of cloud were mentioned in the early-stage
release that will be available to developers and architectural analysts. Many
of the items we saw in the reviewer's workshop were specifically poised towards
side-by-side comparable features in VMware's latest version, vSphere 5--
recently released. Of course, underneath Server Editions will be Hyper-V. How
the latest cut of Hyper-V will play atop other hypervisors remains to be seen.
Indeed Microsoft called
Windows Server 8 a "cloud operating system" but models weren't clear
about IaaS, rather, they spoke to organizational PaaS as in the Azure model--
which to date has been slow to release and slow on the uptake. How business
partners and MSPs would provide value seemed to be missing data. The cloud
components fit a customer mold, we were told.
How the Metro UI plays
into the scheme of things appears to be a new layer-- the UI layer. Imagine for
a moment where there's a user interface, and underneath application UI, there's
a middleware layer that is a communications transport. In turn, there's a
back-end that's designed to be application infrastructure, in a three-tiered
model. Servers are the back-end substrate, busily doing work and getting
shuffled around to meet demand.
The entire Windows Server
8 is a markedly different endeavor for Microsoft, as radical as Windows 2000
was. Microsoft was fighting for server share back then, and reminded us that
they believed we're looking at a third generation, and that Microsoft often
takes three generations to get it right.
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